Persuasive Essay On The War On Drugs

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Ever since the trafficking of narcotic drugs started the War on Drugs began to take more action in the situation. Trying to prohibit the trade of illegal drugs has worked in the way that the military and government have gotten involved and made a difference in some countries. In some countries new tactics can be used in order to help drug problems. With the tactics that are being used in order to end the global drug use are helpful in the way they decrease drug related crime. The War on Drugs has been a war in order to prohibit the trafficking of drugs, which is what the government is trying to do, but making new policies in the country. The spread of narcotic drugs has gone from country to country. In Forces of Habit it states “The key psychoactive …show more content…

They were traded around the world and grown, or made from cash crops grown, in both hemispheres in the centuries following the Columbian exchanges.” With all the types of drugs being traded around the world it was difficult to try to put to an end to all the groups that were involved. In the video “Peru: The New King of Cocaine” it says “the range of cocaine production is between 300 to 320 metric tons per year. The government perceives that since 2011, production has decreased. This is attributed to three polices enacted by President Humala.” The three policies that Alberto Otarola, head of Devida, states are the destruction of illegal cocaine farming. Having all the cocaine farms destroyed will cause less production of illegal cocaine as well as less trafficking of it. The second policy is that interdiction has improved, which means that they have prohibited …show more content…

In the Forces of Habit, it states “Despite the harsh penalties- smugglers could be transported, or worse- the British government had no hope of suppressing the traffic.” According to the book there would be punishment if one was to be caught with trafficking, but the government had no intention in putting a n end to the trafficking, but to those who were involved. During the 20th century the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was founded and it has to do with narcotics and it is able to question those who are involved in drug trafficking to the borders. The DEA has the right to detain anyone within suspicion. Before the DEA was acknowledged those who smuggled drugs into the U.S were never brought up in the justice system until the law enforcement agency and criminal justice system agreed it not only harmed the basis of the government. The government has taken action and is now trying to put a stop to the trafficking of illegal

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